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Akka | Spring Boot | |
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33 | 166 | |
12,925 | 72,782 | |
0.2% | 1.1% | |
9.4 | 10.0 | |
about 13 hours ago | about 13 hours ago | |
Scala | Java | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Apache License 2.0 |
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Akka
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Modern Async Primitives on iOS, Android, and the Web
Kotlin also has a construct for asynchronous collections/streams. Kotlin's version of AsyncSequence is called a Flow. Just as Swift's AsyncSequence builds upon prior experience with RxSwift and Combine, Kotlin's Flow APIs build upon earlier stream/collection APIs in the JVM ecosystem: Java's RxJava, Java8 Streams, Project Reactor, and Scala's Akka.
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What are the current hot topics in type theory and static analysis?
First-class distributed and multicore computing. Swift has first-class “actors” and “distributed” methods. Unison, Erlang, and Elixir are built with distributed being one of the #1 concerns. Though first-class is not super common and I don't really expect it to be because usually libraries are enough (e.g. Scala has Akka and is used WIDELY for distributed); whereas something like linear types and typed effects, you can't emulate in a library.
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Anything close beam/otp for other languages?
Akka is a library that implements the actor model for JVM languages. Mainly in Scala, but you can use it in Java too, and maybe others. It doesn't feel as ergonomic as Elixir, but if Elixir is too "out there" for the decision makers in your case, this might be a friendlier alternative.
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Kalix: Move to the Cloud. Extend to the Edge. Go Beyond.
Kalix builds on the lessons we have learned from more than a decade of building Akka (leveraging the actor model) and our experience helping large (and small) enterprises move to the cloud and use it in the most time, cost, and resource-efficient way possible.
- Carl Hewitt has died [pdf]
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About Elixir and the microservices architecture
Note Akka, the Java & friends framework, is working with the actor model and have as main inspiration Erlang to mimic some features of the BEAM on top of the JVM.
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I have lots of downtime at work, is there anything I can do online to make extra money?
Looking back at real dates, I started learning the language (Scala) back in 2008 because it was something new and trendy that interested me. I started spending some serious time with it in 2009 (helping out other newcomers and making small contributions to various projects), and then in 2010 became a core contributor to the Akka project (you can find me a little ways down this list: https://github.com/akka/akka/graphs/contributors). For the most part I worked on the features I wanted to, but worked on other things if a user asked nicely. Akka became very popular in the early 2010s, so all of a sudden I had highly sought after skills. Got hired by a London based company and moved myself and my family from Canada over here. But even today, that exposure I got 10 years ago still helps me to land new contracts.
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FogBugz Goes Dark
In the open source world, Akka, the most popular actor system library in the JVM ecosystem, that’s heavily used in tonnes of open source projects, recently went from “free and open source” to “paid/proprietary and source available.” https://github.com/akka/akka/pull/31561
Same strategy - the pricing is insanely high (for a library), and the project is effectively dead now, but it’ll take some larger enterprises awhile to move away from.
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Akka will no longer be Open Source
Lightbend, the company owning Akka, recently shared a blog post signed by the CEO announcing a license change from Apache 2.0 to Business Source License 1.1, a proprietary license. You can already find it in this PR, merged a couple days ago.
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Why We Are Changing the License for Akka
Akka 2.6 is on the open source Apache license, that is unchanged (its not possible for Lightbend to change an existing license). Its only the new Akka 2.7 which has the BSL license, so as long as you don't upgrade you are fine. See https://github.com/akka/akka/pull/31561.
Spring Boot
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Walmart is migrating the remaining F# code into Java
- Usually manually wired and configured vs the spring boot "starter" pattern of having libraries that automatically do some of the manual setup work for you: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/blob/main/spr...
I wish more client library sets had the feature-matrix that the pulsar one does, because in practice most end up being the same: Java supports everything because it's either built in the same codebase or is the most used client and gets the most support, while the dotnet client codebase has many feature-requests or performance improvement issues, often leading to a "third-party client" being created.
- AI PR adds auto generated comments to whole Spring Boot Project
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AI commented the entire Spring Boot codebase
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/pull/39754/co...
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Spring Boot 3 And Java 17 Migration Guide
If you’re currently running with an earlier version of Spring Boot, I recommend that you upgrade to Spring Boot 2.7 before migrating to Spring Boot 3.0. It minimizes compatibility issues as much as possible.
- Spring Boot 3.2.0 Release Notes
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The Game of Life, the Universe, and Everything: Java Virtual Threads in Action
Okay, we need to build the game? No problem, we will use Spring Boot and Swing!
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Netflix Uses Java
It's weird that some people including you directly attack my competence. As a power user you should have plenty of experience getting something to work that is not properly document, does not work how the documentation promised it to, or has weird problems on top of it. Look at idiotic things like this:
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues/33044
Take any similar issue and you'll see a bunch of people who try to find a solution for them because they just aren't repeatable at all. The underlying issue is the auto configuration doing things you can't follow quite properly. It's like it wasn't mean to be understood. Issues like the one I linked above also show me that the spring dev crowd also doesn't understand the ecosystem anymore. The problem is complexity and automagic.
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What's New in Spring Framework 6.1
An interested reader can decide for themselves:
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/tree/main/spr...
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Secure Java URL encoding and decoding
Explicitly decoding URL query parameters occurs less often because many frameworks, including Spring Boot, handle decoding automatically.
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SpringBoot Serverless REST API - ApiGateway+Lambda, deployed using AWS SAM
https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/ https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/ https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/sam/ https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/ https://aws.amazon.com/s3/ https://spring.io/projects/spring-boot https://start.spring.io
What are some alternatives?
Vert.x - Vert.x is a tool-kit for building reactive applications on the JVM
helidon - Java libraries for writing microservices
Apache ZooKeeper - Apache ZooKeeper
Play - The Community Maintained High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala.
Hazelcast - Hazelcast is a unified real-time data platform combining stream processing with a fast data store, allowing customers to act instantly on data-in-motion for real-time insights.
javalin - A simple and modern Java and Kotlin web framework [Moved to: https://github.com/javalin/javalin]
Hystrix - Hystrix is a latency and fault tolerance library designed to isolate points of access to remote systems, services and 3rd party libraries, stop cascading failure and enable resilience in complex distributed systems where failure is inevitable.
Quarkus - Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.
JGroups - The JGroups project
Jooby - The modular web framework for Java and Kotlin
Lagom - Reactive Microservices for the JVM
ZK - ZK is a highly productive Java framework for building amazing enterprise web and mobile applications